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Chinese Checkers is actully not a version of chess nor from China or Asia. It was actully made in Germany. Where it was originally called Stern- Halma. The name ” Chinese Checkers ” was originated by Bill and Jack Pressman . The “Stern” refers to the star shape on the board.

Chinese Checkers was invented in 1892. It was brought to America in 1928 by two men. It still exists in the 21st century but it has changed a little. Normally it takes about 10 to 30 minutes to play and finish the game. You can play with up to 2, 4 or even 6 people in Chinese Checkers.

I actully had a hard time finding why Chinese Checkers was invented. But I think one reason is because Chinese people maybe wanted a type of game like checkers. I think that is the only reason I could find and think of. Like I said the internet wasn’t helping me but I will try to find out more.

Here is one website that I used:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_checkers

Parcheesi is a game made by the Parker Brothers. Made in India Parcheesi may have been invented as early as 500 AD. Parchessi is called the Royal Game of India, because the royal families would dress servents in different colored costumes. When played they would stand on a large board outside.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcheesi

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Parcheesi is were you have 4 ponds. You have 2 dice. You roll the dice and you have to get a 5 to get out of the circle. After you have got your pond out of the circle you try to get your pond around the board and up your color into the center. If you roll double you get to roll again.

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To win the game you need to get all your ponds in the center. You need the exact amount to get into the center. If somebody lands on the same spot as you and you’re not on a safe spot your pond has to go back to where you started. The safe spot is a blue spot with a circle in the center.

That’s when, where, and why Parcheesi was invented and how to play.

My favorite animal is a puppy because  when I am around my grandpa’s puppies I play around with them and  I give them treats. What I really enjoy about playing with them is I can take them for a run or walk. I really like going to my grandpa’s house because I get to play with them for as long as I want to I want to. Dog’s are fun to play with because you can have a fun time playing with dog’s and a great  time with your family.

Puppies are my favorite because they don’t cause that much trouble. And because they don’t bark alot like other dogs. I’ve always liked puppies because they have soft fur and because they don’t bite unless you do something to them.

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My favorite thing for play is lego because, first of all, theres loads of sets in some stores, second of all, once they get broken, you can build any thing you want, and last buut not least, there pretty cheap in stores. But the thing that I want to really tell you is that, some grown up people espiacal like legos to so, don’t think kids are the only ones who like legos. And what I like about legos is that, you get to play with alot of legos with your friends and family and cousins and uncles and aunts and, everyone else!!!!!!!!!

And I forgot to tell you that I watched The Lego Movie, and it showed all the mini figures from all the sets. And it was about a lego person named,Emmet who would always have a awsome day but then, a girl sneeks in his work and trys to find something. When Emmet knows about this girl, he fell in love with her so emmet sees the girl, he fell in a hole, he found a red thing called the piece of ressistance. So the girl helped emmt get up. So Emmet told the girl her name, and her name is, Wild Style.

So thats when they went to these crazy adentures and stuff. But then, evil Mr. Bissueness thought of gluing all the lego people. So Emmet had to stop him with the piece of ressistance! So I just want to tell you one more thing, my favorite lego guy is laval from chima. What is your favorite minifigure?

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My favorite game is Minecraft. Minecraft is a game where you spawn in a world and in that world there cubes everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Everything is made out of cubes. There are lots of kinds of things in Minecraft like flowers, pets and ores etc.

you might be saying what do you do in Minecraft? Well like I said you spawn in a world in that world you have to do things in till night cause if you have nothing on you and you’ve done nothing that’s not good news for you. So what people normally do in Minecraft is they spawn in make a house go mining and make amour and fight the Ender dragon so that’s what you do.

So you now when I said why in the world do you have to get ready for when night comes? Well there is something called mobs. Mobs are monster that come at night. All of them hurt you so DON’T think they don’t hurt you. Well not pig-men. You might be thinking what is a pig-men?

Pig-men are mobs and they don’t live where you live. They live in the Neither. The Neither is a another world you get there by getting 10 Obsidian blocks and placing them in a rectangle shape. There is lots more mobs and lots more things in the Neither.

So the whole point of the game is to beat the Ender dragon the Ender dragon is like the boss of the game he is very hard to kill. So you have to get ready for him. When you killed him you get a egg and its called the Ender dragon egg. And that’s all you do in survival.

There also creative mode that when you do what every you what. It’s just you and the world. In creative mode you can build lots of things it’s like cheat mode. You don’t need to to anything you have all the blocks. You don’t have to kill the Ender Dragon, well you can if you do want to. Creative mode is a very good mode if you like building.

In Minecraft there is something called redstone. You might be thinking is redstone like its a stone and its painted red. It looks like powder that is red. What do you do with redstone? Its like the techno stuff in Minecraft.

Here is another review of the Minecraft game that includes tips and tricks:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/minecraft-tips-and-tricks

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My favorite animal is a lion because they can be scarey but I belive that they can be nice.They are more scared of you than you are of them.

A lion’s life span is 10-14 years in the wild and when held in captivity it is 20-25 years. They mostly live in sub-Saharan Africa, although they can live in India’s Hur Forest.

They live in groups, called prides, of around 30 lions. Lions usually hunt at night. Females do 85 to 90 percent of the pride’s hunting. There diet is antelopes, buffaloes, zebras, young elephants, rhinos, hippos, wild hogs, crocodiles and giraffes.

Pride members keep track of one another by roaring. Both males and females have a very powerful roar that can be heard up to 8 km (5 mi.) away.Their thick manes, a unique trait to male lions, it protects their necks when they fight with challengers.They are very interesting animals and I hope they don’t go instinct.

Whats your favorite animal?

These sites were used to find some of my facts:

http://www.animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/lion/

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-lion/

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My favorite thing to do is go swimming

You mite think that I am one of those girls that likes doing tricks. Well guess again because you are wrong, I am the kind of girl that just likes to swim and a lot. But it is not just swimming I also like to be with my family while I am swimming. Also I like to show my family members how to swim because some of them don’t really know how to swim.

One day my brother told me to jump to the pool. So what I did was that I went out of the pool and I went really far back then one, two , three and SPLASH! I went really down and I even touched the floor, but then I went right back up. Then my sister wanted to do it too but with me.

I like to go swimming a lot because it is really fun and because you get to meet new friends. Also because your with your family members and you will always see them with happy faces because they are having so much fun. And not like being at the house all bored with frowny faces. Also by going swmming is a great way to stay active and also there are some other ways to stay active. If you don’t really know how to swim that’s okay because you could take swimming lessons.

Here is a link that can give you more information about swimming classes:

http://www.bluebuoy.com/blue-buoy-swim-classes.html

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Baseball has been my passion for as long as I can remember. I really love playing baseball. I play baseball almost everyday with my cousins and family.  My favorite team is the Angels of Anaheim. I like the Angels because their stadium and their uniforms. My favorite thing about them is that they have all of my favorite players.

My first favorite player on the Angels is Mike Trout. I think he is one of the best baseball players ever in my opinion. He needs one more home run to get to the 100 home runs in 3 years. Last year Trout was MVP in the All star game but the bad thing is he led the whole Major League in strikeouts in 2014. Here is a link to learn more about Mike Trout.

My last favorite player on the Angels is Albert Pujols.  In his career he has hit 522 home runs The person in first with the all time home runs in their career has 751 home runs. Albert is has good guy. He plays to win every time he gets on that baseball field. He likes to joke  around with other baseball player. One last thing about him is that loves to play the game of baseball. Who is your favorite baseball player? Here is a link to learn more about Albert Pujols.

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The skateboard was invented by surfers who wanted to surf on land. They took planks of wood and put wheels on them, then they would ride this down a hill. They called it “Sidewalk Surfing”. After time it started to look like what it looks like today. People came up with tricks you could do like the Ollie or Kick Flip. This is a tutorial on how to do an Ollie  People also started making ramps and going off them.

One of the well known skateboard companies is Vans. This is a link to their web sight: http://www.vans.com. Vans makes shoes and has skate    parks. They also have skateboarding compositions as well as surfing compitisios. Have you ever been to a skate park? If you have then tell me.

Skateboarding was invented in the late forties and early fifties so it has been about sixty years scene it has been invented. What will the future hold for skateboarding? Maybe instead of trucks and wheels some sort of hovering device.